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Representative Publications and Assessment Measures

Van Orden, K. A., Witte, T. K., Cukrowicz, K. C., Braithwaite, S. R., Selby, E. A., & Joiner, T. E., Jr. (2010). The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Psychological Review, 117(2),575-600. PMC3130348.

Van Orden, K. A., Cukrowicz, K. C., Witte, T. K., & Joiner, T. E. (2012). Thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness: Construct validity and psychometric properties of the interpersonal needs questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 24(1), 197-215. doi: 10.1037/a0025358. PMC3377972.?

Parkhurst, K. A., Conwell, Y., & Van Orden, K. A. (2015). The Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire with a shortened response scale for oral administration with older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 20(3), 277-283. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2014.1003288.PMC4520787.
Information on the INQ can be downloaded here: https://rochester.box.com/v/INQ-2012-Info

Van Orden, K. A.,Stone, D. M., Rowe, J., LiKamWa McIntosh, W., Podgorski, C., & Conwell, Y. (2013). The Senior Connection: Design and rationale of a randomized trial of peer companionship to reduce suicide risk in later life. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 35, 117-126. Doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2013.03.003.PMC3684619.

Van Orden, K. A., & *Deming, C. (2018). Late-Life Suicide Prevention Strategies: Current Status and Future Directions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 22, 79-83. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.033. PMC5843499

Van Orden, K. A., Silva, C., & Conwell, Y. (2019). Suicide in Later Life. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (Psychology and Aging). Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.421.
This overview chapter can be downloaded for person use here: https://rochester.box.com/v/preventionchapter2019

All Publications

1. Jain FA
2. Gutierrez-Ramirez P
3. Zea M
4. Okereke OI
5. Van Orden KA
6. Pedrelli P
7. Vranceanu AM
8. Dueck K
9. Pederson A
10. Ramirez Gomez LA
Early Childhood Adversity Predicts Risk of Family Caregiver Suicidal Ideation:Roles of Neuroticism and Self-Compassion.; Research square. 2024 Sep 17.
1. Kehoe LA
2. Sohn MB
3. Wang L
4. Mohile S
5. Kamen C
6. Van Orden K
7. Wells M
8. Gilmore N
9. Arana-Chicas E
10. Gudina A
11. Yilmez S
12. Griggs L
13. Loh KP
Associations of quality of social support and accurate beliefs about curability among older adults with advanced cancer.; Journal of geriatric oncology; Vol 15(8), pp. 102061. 2024 Sep 10.
1. Van Orden KA
Capitalizing on Psychosocial Strengths in Aging.; International psychogeriatrics. 2024 Jan 22.
1. Van Orden KA
Suicide Risk in Caregivers.; International psychogeriatrics. 2023 Sep 05.
1. Quiñones MM
2. Silva C
3. Ross C
4. Sörensen S
5. Serrano R
6. Van Orden K
7. Heffner K
Recruiting Socially Disconnected Latinos Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned.; Clinical gerontologist. 2023 Apr 02.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Bower E
3. Lutz J
4. Silva C
Engage coaching for caregivers: a pilot trial to reduce loneliness in dementia caregivers.; Aging & mental health. 2023 Mar 10.
1. Pisani A
2. Connor K
3. Van Orden K
4. Jordan N
5. Landes S
6. Curran G
7. McDermott M
8. Ertefaie A
9. Kelberman C
10. Ramanathan S
11. Carruthers J
12. Mossgraber K
13. Goldston D
Effectiveness of a targeted brief intervention for recent suicide attempt survivors: a randomised controlled trial protocol.; BMJ open; Vol 13(3), pp. e070105. 2023 Mar 03.
1. Silva C
2. Smith PN
3. Rogers M
4. Joiner TE
5. Foote B
6. Van Orden KA
Clinically Significant Scores for Thwarted Belonging and Perceived Burden from the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ-15).; Crisis. 2023 Feb 10.
1. Missell-Gray R
2. Van Orden K
3. Simning A
Hospitalization's association with depression in adults over 50 years old: does living arrangement matter? Findings from the Health and Retirement Study.; Aging & mental health. 2023 Jan 02.
1. Jerant A
2. Duberstein PR
3. Kravitz RL
4. Kleiman EM
5. Rizvi SL
6. Cipri C
7. Liu D
8. Scher L
9. Freitas M
10. Jones-Hill M
11. Oravetz A
12. Van Orden KA
13. Franks P
Ethical and methodological challenges slowing progress in primary care-based suicide prevention: Illustrations from a randomized controlled trial and guidance for future research.; Journal of psychiatric research; Vol 154, pp. 242-251. 2022 Aug 06.
1. Meyerhoff J
2. Kruzan KP
3. Kim KA
4. Van Orden K
5. Mohr DC
Exploring the Safety of a General Digital Mental Health Intervention to Effect Symptom Reduction among Individuals with and without Suicidal Ideation: A Secondary Analysis.; Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research. 2022 Jul 12.
1. Parkhurst KA
2. Daks JS
3. Conwell Y
4. Podgorski CA
5. Van Orden KA
Social network subtypes among socially disconnected older adults at risk for suicide: A latent class analysis.; Suicide & life-threatening behavior. 2022 Jun 23.
1. Silva C
2. Cero I
3. Ricci N
4. Pérez A
5. Conwell Y
6. Van Orden K
The feasibility and acceptability of using smartphones to assess suicide risk among Spanish-speaking adult outpatients.; Suicide & life-threatening behavior. 2022 Jun 08.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Heffner KL
Promoting Social Connection in Dementia Caregivers: A Call for Empirical Development of Targeted Interventions.; The Gerontologist. 2022 Mar 02.
1. Silva C
2. Douglas N
3. Van Orden K
Neighborhood Belonging and Thoughts of Death Among Hispanics in the United States.; Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research. 2022 Feb 08.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Conwell Y
3. Chapman BP
4. Buttaccio A
5. VanBergen A
6. Beckwith E
7. Santee A
8. Rowe J
9. Palumbos D
10. Williams G
11. Messing S
12. Sörensen S
13. Tu X
The helping older people engage (HOPE) study: Protocol & COVID modifications for a randomized trial.; Contemporary clinical trials communications; Vol 30, pp. 101040. 2022 Jan 30.
1. Jonson M
2. Sigström R
3. Van Orden KA
4. Fässberg MM
5. Skoog I
6. Waern M
Life-Weariness, Wish to Die, Active Suicidal Ideation, and All-Cause Mortality in Population-Based Samples of Older Adults.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 20.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Bower E
3. Beckler T
4. Rowe J
5. Gillespie S
The Use of Robotic Pets with Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.; Clinical gerontologist. 2021 Aug 05.
1. Madrigal C
2. Bower E
3. Simons K
4. Gillespie SM
5. Van Orden K
6. Mills WL
Assessing Social Functioning During COVID-19 and Beyond: Tools and Considerations for Nursing Home Staff.; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2021 Jul 30.
1. Van Orden KA
Addressing Loneliness in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Commentary on "Understanding Psychological Distress and Protective Factors Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic".; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 22.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Areán PA
3. Conwell Y
A Pilot Randomized Trial of Engage Psychotherapy to Increase Social Connection and Reduce Suicide Risk in Later Life.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 01.
1. Lutz J
2. Van Orden KA
3. Bruce ML
4. Conwell Y
Social Disconnection in Late Life Suicide: An NIMH Workshop on State of the Research in Identifying Mechanisms, Treatment Targets, and Interventions.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 05.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Lutz J
3. Conner KR
4. Silva C
5. Hasselberg MJ
6. Fear K
7. Leadley AW
8. Wittink MN
9. Baumhauer JF
URMC Universal Depression Screening Initiative: Patient Reported Outcome Assessments to Promote a Person-Centered Biopsychosocial Population Health Management Strategy.; Frontiers in psychiatry; Vol 12. 2021.
1. Ali R
2. Hoque E
3. Duberstein P
4. Schubert L
5. Razavi SZ
6. Kane B
7. Silva C
8. Daks JS
9. Huang M
10. Van Orden K
Aging and Engaging: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Conversational Skills Coach for Older Adults.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2020 Nov 22.
1. Lutz J
2. Van Orden KA
Sadness and Worry in Older Adults: Differentiating Psychiatric Illness from Normative Distress.; The Medical clinics of North America; Vol 104(5). 2020 Sep.
1. Van Orden KA
Considering the Impact of Research Assessments: A Commentary on "COVID-19 Related Loneliness and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Older Adults: The Buffering Role of Subjective Age".; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2020 Aug 11.
1. Conwell Y
2. Van Orden KA
3. Stone DM
4. McIntosh WL
5. Messing S
6. Rowe J
7. Podgorski C
8. Kaukeinen KA
9. Tu X
Peer Companionship for Mental Health of Older Adults in Primary Care: A Pragmatic, Nonblinded, Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2020 Jun 02.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Bower E
3. Lutz J
4. Silva C
5. Gallegos AM
6. Podgorski CA
7. Santos EJ
8. Conwell Y
Strategies to Promote Social Connections Among Older Adults During 'Social Distancing' Restrictions.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2020 May 18.
1. Corona CD
2. Van Orden KA
3. Wisco BE
4. Pietrzak RH
Meaning in life moderates the association between morally injurious experiences and suicide ideation among U.S. combat veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.; Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy; Vol 11(6). 2019 Sep.
1. Mournet AM
2. Bower E
3. Van Orden KA
Domains of Functional Impairment and Their Associations with Thwarted Belonging and Perceived Burden in Older Adults.; Clinical gerontologist. 2019 Aug 09.
1. Conti EC
2. Jahn DR
3. Simons KV
4. Edinboro LPC
5. Jacobs ML
6. Vinson L
7. Stahl ST
8. Van Orden KA
Safety Planning to Manage Suicide Risk with Older Adults: Case Examples and Recommendations.; Clinical gerontologist. 2019 May 17.
1. Simons K
2. Van Orden K
3. Conner KR
4. Bagge C
Age Differences in Suicide Risk Screening and Management Prior to Suicide Attempts.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2019 Jan 22.
1. Kandasamy D
2. Platts-Mills TF
3. Shah MN
4. Van Orden KA
5. Betz ME
Social Disconnection Among Older Adults Receiving Care in the Emergency Department.; The western journal of emergency medicine; Vol 19(6). 2018 Nov.
1. Duberstein PR
2. Ward EA
3. Chaudron LH
4. He H
5. Toth SL
6. Wang W
7. Van Orden KA
8. Gamble SA
9. Talbot NL
Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy-trauma for depressed women with childhood abuse histories.; Journal of consulting and clinical psychology; Vol 86(10). 2018 Oct.
1. Silva C
2. Van Orden KA
Suicide among Hispanics in the United States.; Current opinion in psychology; Vol 22. 2018 Aug.
1. Van Orden K
The Interpersonal Context of Suicide and Self-Harm in Later Life: An Invited Commentary on "Why Do the Very Old Self-Harm? A Qualitative Study".; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry; Vol 26(8). 2018 Aug.
1. Wiktorsson S
2. Rydberg Sterner T
3. Mellqvist Fässberg M
4. Skoog I
5. Ingeborg Berg A
6. Duberstein P
7. Van Orden K
8. Waern M
Few Sex Differences in Hospitalized Suicide Attempters Aged 70 and Above.; International journal of environmental research and public health; Vol 15(1). 2018 Jan 16.
1. Van Orden K
2. Deming C
Late-life suicide prevention strategies: current status and future directions.; Current opinion in psychology; Vol 22. 2017 Sep 08.
1. Chu C
2. Van Orden KA
3. Ribeiro JD
4. Joiner TE
Does the timing of suicide risk assessments influence ratings of risk severity?; Professional psychology, research and practice; Vol 48(2). 2017 Apr.
1. Foote B
2. Van Orden K
Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; American journal of psychotherapy; Vol 70(4). 2016 Dec 31.
1. Smith PN
2. Stanley IH
3. Joiner TE
4. Sachs-Ericsson NJ
5. Van Orden KA
An Aspect of the Capability for Suicide-Fearlessness of the Pain Involved in Dying-Amplifies the Association Between Suicide Ideation and Attempts.; Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research; Vol 20(4). 2016 Oct.
1. Wiktorsson S
2. Berg AI
3. Wilhelmson K
4. Mellqvist Fässberg M
5. Van Orden K
6. Duberstein P
7. Waern M
Assessing the role of physical illness in young old and older old suicide attempters.; International journal of geriatric psychiatry; Vol 31(7). 2016 Jul.
1. Bamonti P
2. Lombardi S
3. Duberstein PR
4. King DA
5. Van Orden KA
Spirituality attenuates the association between depression symptom severity and meaning in life.; Aging & mental health; Vol 20(5). 2016 May.
1. Sachs-Ericsson N
2. Van Orden K
3. Zarit S
Suicide and aging: special issue of Aging & Mental Health.; Aging & mental health; Vol 20(2). 2016.
1. Parkhurst KA
2. Conwell Y
3. Van Orden KA
The interpersonal needs questionnaire with a shortened response scale for oral administration with older adults.; Aging & mental health; Vol 20(3). 2016.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Conwell Y
Issues in research on aging and suicide.; Aging & mental health; Vol 20(2). 2016.
1. Van Orden KA
2. O'Riley AA
3. Simning A
4. Podgorski C
5. Richardson TM
6. Conwell Y
Passive Suicide Ideation: An Indicator of Risk Among Older Adults Seeking Aging Services?; The Gerontologist; Vol 55(6). 2015 Dec.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Li Y
3. Podgorski CA
4. Conwell Y
The association between higher social support and lower depressive symptoms among aging services clients is attenuated at higher levels of functional impairment.; International journal of geriatric psychiatry; Vol 30(10). 2015 Oct.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Smith PN
3. Chen T
4. Conwell Y
A Case Controlled Examination of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in the Second Half of Life.; Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research. 2015 Jul 28.
1. Van Orden KA
2. Wiktorsson S
3. Duberstein P
4. Berg AI
5. Fässberg MM
6. Waern M
Reasons for attempted suicide in later life.; The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry; Vol 23(5). 2015 May.